Ask Dr.Druid . intro
to grok or not to grok
This piece will grok better for you
In the integration of lucid waking &
lucid dreaming, our whole druid shaman approach is about honing
attention. Achieving grok. Grok is an extravagant attention, a
'drinking in' of an understanding, of a perception.
Amongst our druid shaman premises are
that we have a myriad of dreams we inhabit. For practical and
beginning purposes, we have rem real, those night dreams of whatever
vividness, and day real, the more-or-less agreed upon masterpiece of
reality engineering that we blandly call ordinary life. By practicing
a deft, sustainable attention, a fluid ‘attention zone,’ we can
learn to allow all our experiences to become peak, fascinating.
We’ll cultivate fascination. You can
learn to play fascination just as you can learn to play the
guitar or play Scrabble or use a recipe.
Deft is how a butterfly lands on a
flower. A drop shot in tennis is deft. A bank shot in pool is deft.
Remember that when we first learn
anything, our corrections are awkward. When I first learned to ride a
bike, I would way over-correct, over-balance lurchingly from side to
side. Eventually I got the bike-riding-balance trick so deftly that I
could ride no-hands for miles. Being gloriously and hilariously
willing to learn something new is to be willing to be back in
kindergarten, to be awkward for awhile without any need for saving
face.
The druid subtext to all our lively
curiosity is that Everything is Interesting. This attitude of peak
gratitude and peak curiosity is the birthright of every person. I
always feel as bold an explorer as Balboa. Or sometimes I feel like a
curator in the Cosmic Museum – what I devotedly notice is shinily
preserved in eternity. The riches of attention, the treasures of
attention are untarnishable marvels.
Being a druid shaman is about juggling
fascinations with abandon. The abandon comes later. The fascination
comes first. Every thing has glamour. (We’ve narrowed the word to
mean women on magazine covers with expensive make-up.) Glamour is an
irresistible inner delectability of any thing. Fascination is making
a connection with the tricky, mysterious glamour in each thing.
We'll pursue a Practical Alchemy, make
the Great Arts Unhidden, turn the lead of the unnoticed to the gold
of the admired.
Master druids know only one trick:
everything is fascinating. They inhabit a discipline of extreme
empathy and vulnerability to their pandream experience. They
differentiate between People & AllElse. This immense, intense,
immediate, delicate, & stark openness of attention is practiced
at first exclusively with AllElse.
Grok on!
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Notes:
..Ask Dr. Druid
acquaints you with the Isle of Avalon, the Island of Apples, that
corpus callosum where your brain hemispheres connect and learn
collaboration, irony, mischief, magic. In order for this actual
physical activation to occur and stabilize, it's essential that you
read the short daily chapters with your mouth as if out loud..
Just like they told you not to in 2nd grade.
Sentences which will trip
you up if you read them racingly with your eyes alone, will bloom
like zinnias for you when you read them with your lips & tongue
as if out loud. I make the chapters very short so you can afford to
take the small extra time to read in this forbidden way.
..pandream..'pan' is here
a prefix meaning 'all.' Druids learn that lucid waking & lucid
dreaming use the same wonderfull attention skills.
..grok..'grok' (a drinking
deeply in of understanding)is a necessary Martian word from
Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land,
a great though painfully sexist sci fi romp.
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Ask Dr. Druid, 66 Days from Lead to Gold, Secrets of Alchemy You Can Use, a druid shaman’s playbook .. Intro; Prologue; Day 1; Days 2 & 3; Day 4; Day 5; Day 6; Day 7; Day 8; Day 9; Day 10; Day 11; Day 12; Day 13; Day 14; day 15 Review 2; Day 16; Day 17; Day 18; Day 19;
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